Planing the deck edges
With the deck glued to the hull it’s time to shape, sand, fill, sand, sand, sand, and sand. A process known colloquially known as “fairing the boat”. Above, the boat goes in one end of the plane, art and scrap comes out the other.
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- Wood flour from each species used in the boat. Will use to fix my huge, glaring, inescapable flaws. And to color the epoxy needed to fill gaps in the boat.
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- Gluing the deck to the hull. Boats are clamp-intensive.
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- Gluing the riser blocks and mounting studs for the footrests.
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- Glassing the underside of the deck.
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- The epoxy end-pours in the bow and stern. Adds some rigidity and gives a nice bomber place to drill holes for the carry handles.
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- You can do the end-pours two main ways- make a dam in a level boat to hold the epoxy in place while it cures (not as easy as it sounds in a tight space with severe angle problems), or stand the damn boat on end and just dump in the epoxy.
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- The underside of the bow deck.
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- Getting ready to sand the underside smooth and ready for glassing.
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- Toothpicks to fill the small holes in a few places where I stapled strips to the forms.
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